Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

porridge

/ˈpɔɹɪd͡ʒ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.11 in modern English

Syllables: por-ridge
IPA: /ˈpɔɹɪd͡ʒ/

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.

Uncountable

noun

A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.

British usage; Uncountable

noun

A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.

Uncountable

noun

A prison sentence.

British usage; Slang; Uncountable

noun

A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Eat your porridge while it's hot!"
"There were rumours, new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely."
"Just do your porridge and keep your head down."

Etymology

Variant of pottage (“thick soup or stew”), influenced by porray (“stew of leeks”). The "prison sentence" sense comes from the British tradition of serving prisoners porridge for breakfast.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈpɔɹɪd͡ʒ/
British English: /ˈpɒɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/

Usage

Inflected Forms

porridges (plural) parritch (alternative, Scotland) porage (alternative) porrige (alternative)

Derived Forms

porridgeless porridgelike porridgy

Phrases

do porridge keep one's breath to cool one's porridge Laba porridge pease porridge pine nut porridge plain as porridge plum-porridge porridge belly

Frequently Paired Words

congee gruel oatmeal stiff porridge

Rhymes With

storage norwich forage borage torridge

Questions

How do you pronounce porridge?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈpɔɹɪd͡ʒ/.
What does porridge mean?: A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.
Where does porridge come from?: Variant of pottage (“thick soup or stew”), influenced by porray (“stew of leeks”). The "prison sentence" sense comes from the British tradition of serving prisoners porridge for breakfast.

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